In the Beginning Was Neither Egg Nor Hen, but the Egg-Hen / Hen-Egg
Does it means you can fry a chicken or roast an egg?
“The universe is a self-knowing spirit, and through the unfolding of its own dialectic, it comes to consciousness of itself in the grand theater of existence.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What if action is unconscious until it is not? But is ever action unconscious? Can an action exist that, in and of itself, does not respect all the laws of the universe?
What if consciousness is a different kind of action, one that is embedded in and emerges from its own substrate, like a ball that bounces across the surface of reality, influencing it without ever truly becoming part of it?
Two threads that affect each other yet never actually touch, because your consciousness has always existed, just as matter has always existed, except that in the beginning, when matter was pure chaos, your consciousness too was merely a shattered mirror waiting for its fragments to reassemble.
Consciousness and matter have always existed, and this is true because neither one is truly “real” in the conventional sense. We know that everything is vibrational energy: even the most fundamental “particles” are nothing less than entrapped vibrational states we call energy. There is no such thing as solid “matter,” only relationships between non-material vibrations. Vibrations themselves do not “exist” in any stable way; they have no fixed temporal state and are merely a function of time-space transformation.
Matter and consciousness are therefore non-material entities, yet both are capable of expressing themselves in the apprehensible universe. The key difference is that consciousness is a pure vibrational state that exists without direct manifestation in reality, except by being translated through matter into meaning. And it is this meaning, once embedded in matter, that influences and shapes matter’s further manifestation.
Why does having a perfectly organized self-inquiry build an ex machina by default, before anything exists?
This hypothesis implicitly calls the empty space non-empty, because it holds some kind of consciousness, which can neither be proved nor refuted. But common sense would say this is impossible.
This kind of mind gymnastics was done by Hegel, because he could not conceive something coming from nothing while this nothing is really nothing. Nor could he conceive nothing giving birth to something, then giving birth to another nothing that is something in itself.
What came first, the hen or the egg?
It was the hen, but not in the form of the egg. Rather, in the form of something, a pattern that managed to keep itself repeating under certain favorable conditions. This pattern became the hen, perpetuated with the egg. The hen does not come from the egg, but the two come together, one in a visible, obvious form, the other very surely linked to the first as a future possibility. Let’s say that the egg is the hen continuing in another form.
Still, consciousness cannot give birth to anything today, just as it could not give birth at the beginning in its incipient stages. I think consciousness comes embedded with matter, as the hen came together with the egg. Consciousness is a product of matter and vice versa, but the difference is that you can see the hen coming from the egg. You cannot see matter coming from consciousness per se, like in a movie spreading from a hole of light in the fabric of space-time.
Still, if you think about it, consciousness influences the course of matter. It gives birth to the future. That is another way to generate matter. In this sense, consciousness is a precursor to what matter will become, so it is like an egg too.
Conclusion
The universe is a co-creation, a co-catalysing reaction between matter and consciousness, not two separate states. True nothingness does not exist, as it implies that a kind of consciousness is embedded and is using time and space to influence the non-conscious visible matter or the death-hard remains of ancient consciousness.
What if matter is just the spatial trail of consciousness through time?
Hegel is wrong, I am right, and the first was the inseparable egg and hen as consciousness and matter.
What are you afraid of? It’s only your body that dies, and you are not your body. It’s only your mind that dies, but you are not your mind. Imagine just looking but not thinking. This is what never dies, so don’t be afraid. You never lived actually, but you have always been and will ever be.
Great job!
very good.